Wonderware offers manufacturers over 20 years of industry expertise in developing solutions that will enable operational efficiencies and the technical capabilities to deploy the software architecture that supports that goal.

Packaging

Wonderware solutions for Packaging Operations are the foundation for packaging line performance. They enable streamlined order execution and maximize asset utilization.

Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing

Asset capacity utilization is a key success factor for this highly consolidated, asset-intensive industry. It is important to efficiently manage raw ingredients and packaging materials, optimize operations efficiency and responsiveness and reduce operational waste. Energy optimization is a key variable that can significantly impact unit cost.

Dairy Manufacturing and Processing

The five main segments of Dairy – Butter, Cheese, Ice Cream and Novelty Products, Milk and Dry, Condensed and Evaporated Products – have similar challenges.
Product safety and quality during the production process are critical.
Regulated milk prices require minimized production costs, including reduction of waste like scrap. And operations must be agile enough to respond to changing customer demand and produce the most profitable products.

Wonderware Addresses Key Challenges

Optimize moisture and protein content

Respond to demand changes

Be agile for the most profitable product mix

Support Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Analysis

Flexible and efficient packaging

Key Benefits

Maintain product safety

Enforce disciplined operations

Pasteurization and Clean in Place (CIP)

Analyze and benchmark production data

Sugar and Confectionary

The Sugar and Confectionary segment is characterized by very high production volumes. Allergen and cross-contamination concerns are enforced through stringent procedures and controls. The optimal product mix is achieved by postponing or delaying the final flavoring or packaging as much as possible. In this fragmented but consolidated segment, companies must produce efficiently, maximize supply chain efficiency, respond to changing consumer demand, minimize energy consumption, manage assets and ensure food safety.

Wonderware offers a range of solutions that meet business drivers and challenges. Wonderware Operations and Performance Software, a Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software application, helps standardize manufacturing processes and respond with agility to changing products while maintaining product safety with full traceability and trackability.

Analytical software like Wonderware Intelligence enables contextualized reporting and analysis of an organization’s production. Wonderware Corporate Energy Management helps identify and reduce energy consumption costs. The Wonderware System Platform is a unified platform upon which Wonderware Food and Beverage solutions are integrated. Procedural enforcement and exception management helps document and maximize operational events and issues through a centralized electronic system of record.

Wonderware Addresses Key Challenges

Maintain product safety

Manage new product introductions

Enforce disciplined operations

Speed up product changeovers

Control allergens and cross-contamination

Monitor performance

Respond to changing customer product demand

Manage assets

Analyze and benchmark production data

Enable flexible and efficient packaging

Coffee and Tea Manufacturing

The Coffee and Tea manufacturing business is characterized by high growth. As a result, demand forecasting and order fulfillment synchronization are important operational activities.

Coffee and tea flavoring require flexible manufacturing and recipe management strategies. In this highly concentrated industry, a company needs to be responsive to changing consumer taste and demand from the commercial sector while managing raw ingredient costs and producing efficiently in the face of volatile raw material costs.

Wonderware offers a range of solutions that meet business drivers and challenges. Wonderware Operations and Performance Software, a Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software application, helps standardize manufacturing processes and support agile manufacturing while maintaining product safety with full traceability and trackability. Analytical software like Wonderware Intelligence enables contextualized reporting and analysis of an organization’s production. Wonderware System Platform is a unified platform upon which Wonderware Food and Beverage solutions are integrated.

Wonderware Addresses Key Challenges

Optimize processes

Manage many complex formulations

Respond to changing consumer tastes

Maintain product safety

Enforce disciplined operations

Monitor performance

Support agile manufacturing

Analyze and benchmark production data

Enable flexible and efficient packaging

Soft Drinks and Breweries

The Soft Drinks and Breweries businesses are characterized by high production volumes and the two major production steps of processing and packaging. Beverage categories, especially breweries, include additional functions like fermentation control and optimization, water treatment and energy optimization.

Large soft drink manufacturers have started to integrate syrup preparation with packaging to better respond to shifting consumer demands. Volatile commodity and packing material costs representing up to 40 percent of revenues make scrap, rework or downgraded product expensive.

Analytical software like Wonderware Intelligence enables contextualized reporting and analysis of an organization’s production. Wonderware Packaging Solutions help monitor and control packaging operations for maximum throughput and minimum waste. Wonderware System Platform is a unified platform upon which Wonderware Food and Beverage solutions are integrated.

Wonderware Addresses Key Challenges

Respond to changing consumer tastes

Enable vertical integration

Maintain product safety

Provide fermentation control

Manage water treatment

Enforce disciplined operations

Monitor performance

Optimize energy consumption

Support agile manufacturing

Analyze and benchmark production data

Optimize packaging

Other Food and Beverage Industry Segments and Consumer Packaged Goods

The diverse segments in the Food and Beverage industry and in Consumer Packaged Goods have their own challenges and needs. These can include maintaining consistency, operating efficiently, reducing waste, improving quality and providing mobile applications. Schneider Electric understands these challenges and offers proven, effective solutions for optimizing operations and performance.